Background
The development of legal decision support systems in discretionary domains will lead to: (1) Consistency; (2) Transparency; (3) Efficiency; and (4) Enhanced support for dispute resolution. The researchers on this project use the World Wide Web to disseminate legal knowledge. With the collaboration of Victoria Legal Aid and JUSTSYS, the researchers use knowledge discovery from databases and argumentation techniques to model how discretionary legal decision- makers operate. A significant application of the research will be the construction of a prototype for assisting criminal law defense lawyers to make arguments with regard to their client's sentences.
Partners
Industry partners in this project are Victoria Legal Aid and JUSTSYS Pty Ltd. The project is funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant.
Enquiries
Please contact
t.sourdin@uq.edu.au.
